Business/Career

Many of us tend to think of our brain not as muscles, but as a computer: a machine capable of constant work. Not only is that untrue, but pushing ourselves to work for hours without a break can be harmful, some experts say. The idea that you can indefinitely stretch out your deep focus and productivity time to these arbitrary limits is really wrong. It’s self-defeating,” says research scientist Andrew Smart, author of Autopilot. “If you’re constantly putting yourself into this cognitive debt, where your physiology is saying ‘I need a break’ but you keep pushing yourself, you get this low-level stress response that’s chronic – and, over time, extraordinarily dangerous.”

Although some countries like France and Australia have begun to experiment with additional vacation time to balance work and personal happiness, the worldwide trend has progressed in the opposite direction. For example, Japan has long been known for its excruciating workweeks. Employees in other countries are falling victim to longer and longer hours at the office in recent years, too. The result is a new type of employee, called the "extreme employee."

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We all want to be amazing. We all want to be successful, happy, and regarded as important figures in our fields. I am sure that you’ve heard all of the keys to success before: planning, hard work, perseverance, etc.

But today we are going to look at the one factor that will likely make or break your success: the people you surround yourself with.

Interviews are a stressful experience, which makes even the most confident of us weak in the knees. If you add the language element into the equation, as a non-native speaker, it makes the interview process an even bigger hill to climb. While you can never prepare for everything when it comes to interviews, nor have the perfect interview, the key to mastering interviews in English is anticipating as many different scenarios as possible and preparing for them.

There’s an American saying – “You don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been.” The same is true for our lives and careers – you won’t be able to change, grow and improve unless you know who you are. To find your professional identity, it is important that you yourself have a good understanding of your values, priorities, personality and goals and match these to the kind of career that would be best for you. The questions we ask here will help us in this.

Interviews are a stressful experience, which make even the most confident of us weak in the knees. If you add the language element into the equation, as a non-native speaker, it makes the interview process an even bigger hill to climb. While you can never prepare for everything when it comes to interviews, nor have the perfect interview, the key to mastering interviews in English is anticipating as many different scenarios as possible and preparing for them.

No matter what line of work you’re in, chances are the daily grind of schlepping to work (even if it’s just down the hall) and toiling away in an open office to do a job that doesn’t exactly tickle your fancy every day is enough to stifle your more creative urges.

1. Do you believe that in the office there are sharks, donkeys, jackals and other animal-prototype employees? What kind of workers do you notice in your office? In which spheres you can find them in abundance?

2. What are the skills/traits of character that annoy you most in your colleagues? What do you like in your colleagues? What kind of colleagues do you ignore? What type are those colleagues?

Overtime, women have become more powerful in the working world. Today we see women in positions which at one point used to be male-dominated, like lawyers and doctors. Women are trying to become more successful at work but still face an extraordinary dilemma: Family or Work? They try to sequence between the two, but it is still hard… Read the full article or download it in Word format below.